I’m looking to officially hand off a few ruby projects to hackers capable of being more diligent about updates and responding to users than I. Source code for all these is on GitHub, though not all are public. I wish I had time for all these, but the users deserve better than I’m able to provide. Here’s a breakdown of the projects waiting for your love:
Miscellaneous projects:
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railroady Ruby on Rails 3 model and controller UML class diagram generator. Originally based on the “railroad” plugin and contributions of many others. Currently working but has a few outstanding bugs. Seems somewhat popular I guess.
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ruby-prolog A simple Prolog DSL implementation written in ruby. As academic and stupid as it sounds, I actually have seen people using it in the wild and periodically get good questions about it outside of the compsci-y space. As long as you understand lambda calculus it’s pretty easy to grok.
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Starfield Proof-of-concept 3D interactive star-field simulation written in pure Ruby packaged as an OSX .app. (Runs JRuby internally.) Hasn’t been updated in a long time. Written to demonstrate that we (the Ruby community) could actually write and distribute Ruby .app’s (for OSX) that do complex things like interactive 4D simulations.
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Twiverse 95% same code as above but displays tweets instead. Hasn’t been updated in a long time. Again… proof-of-concept only and very slow implementation.
Kindle-related projects:
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kindle-drm PID and checksum finder for Kindle 2 and prior models. Probably needs updates for Kindle 3.
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kindle-drm-stripper Unreleased ruby code developed for research purposes only that has not been released into the wild. Was written for Kindle 2 hardware. Needs updating for Kindle 3. You can probably guess what it does.
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KindleTools Currently hosted at http://kindletools.prestonlee.com. Just a stupid rails web form frontend for the most common “kindle-drm” gem use case: finding a Kindle PID. Has been used by over 20,000 Kindle fans. DOES NOT PROVIDE AN INTERFACE FOR “kindle-drm-stripper” GEM for obvious reasons. Would be much better as a simple Sinatra app or something… rails is way overkill. I will hand over the code and perma-redirect to your new site, but not any of the logs or statistical data to project the users.
Please forward to other lists/colleagues that may be interested.
Preston